Yeah, it worked after a recast. Thanks Seth!
Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth at positivism.org>:
> I made a hack to fix this in the perl spell directly (the only place
> it can be
> fixed) in BUILD:
>> './Configure' has an additional option '-Doptimize="$CFLAGS"'.
>> Perl used to not even take our optimization flags. Now it does.
>> So if you add -fPIC to the cflags (or use the prelink optimizations
> option), everything should work out ok once perl is rebuilt.
>> I did this on 2005-05-11 in devel, test, and stable-rc.